Baseball: A lot still on the line with two games left

Ron Malcolm's team is not in contention for a playoff spot but the scenarios in play the next two days are exactly what Wooster baseball coach envisioned when he lobbied for the Division I North region to go to one league.

The top five teams are all within a game of each other and the next two are separated by just a game. The kicker? Six of those seven teams play each other Wednesday and Thursday.

Spanish Springs and Reno both are 16-4. Bishop Manogue, Damonte Ranch and Galena are all 15-5. Reed is 12-8 and Douglas sits at 11-9. All have clinched a spot in next week's region tournament; none are locked into a seed.

Carson, at 7-13, will be the No. 8 seed. The Senators face Douglas in the final two games.

"This is why baseball, by going to one division, has made it wide open for all schools.," Malcolm said last week. "Since we have adopted this one-division league, this will be the third year in a row where everyone is still in the hunt and/or playing the role of spoilers right utill the last game of the season."